Onward

We spent a couple of days in Pa, near Hershey, in order to wander the Hershey RV show.   We stayed at Twin Grove CG which is a wide open area with great spaces and internet and satellite...two of our must-haves.....but we aren't always so fortunate.    Anyhow, we spent much of the day at the show....it is overwhelming at times and would take days to take it all in.   Of course, we toured the newest and best at the Tiffin section (and still like ours the best) and viewed the Entegra brand....very very nice but we still like ours and peeked into a Newmar (if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it) and we still liked ours the best.   We window-shopped the vendors and found nothing we needed.   We sat in on lectures about satellites, solar panels and fitness.    We caught up with the Maritime travelers again and had lunch and laughs with Dean and Diane and Cay and Ron.    Cay's name was announced for all to hear that she had won a drawing !   Excitement reigned until she came back with a HAT !!     We did manage to get a 3 night stay at a resort on the border of Virginia/North Carolina that looks nice.    The owner was more enthusiastic about our interest after learning we had a new coach as they are restrictive on the age and type of coaches allowed in.   Actually, we weren't that interested, just stopped for a free pen and walked away with the free nights.  
We had a campfire with Dean and Diane and said "See ya down the road" and we headed West.   After  350 miles, we stopped at Wolfie"s CG in Zanesville, OH.    We have about 6 days to get to Denver and hopefully, can take a break or two along the way instead of driving 300 miles each day.   But with both of us driving, it's not so tough as long as the construction zones and narrow tunnels are kept to a minimum.   I was driving when we came to one of those tunnels....two-way traffic and about a foot between that huge truck in the opposite lane and me and the wall on the other side......I didn't look at anything except the blue tape on the windshield and the center line and kept them lined up......and hoped those trucks didn't move over even an inch.  
The nights are cooling off and it is delightful......we keep warm with a big fluffy down blanket.   But, I do like to crawl into a pre-heated bed.   I picked up an electric blanket and it worked fine....for one night !   Took it back and got another.    It worked just fine as well.    Then we disconnected from the electric at the CG yesterday morning and I walked thru the coach and smelled something very electrical.   Smoke was pouring out of both controls and it was making popping sounds.    It took just a minute to disconnect it and throw it all out the front door.     The electrical wizard that I travel with figured out that those outlets are powered by the inverter and the modified sine wave inverter that we have can't power the blanket in that mode (don't I sound like I know what I'm talking about?)    We'll take this one back as well and figure out what to do next.   Either never have the blanket plugged in except to warm up the bed while we are in the coach....or get a different inverter (read $$$) or forget about pre-heated beds and try a warm brick instead.